On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 08:51 -0400, Allen S. Rout wrote:
> So, for debugging purposes (long story) I want to create a couple of
> files which are precisely
>
> 1042808832
>
> bytes long. We were musing about optimal ways to do this.
Well, if you really don't care about the contents of the files:
touch a b
then compile and run this:
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
int main() {
truncate("a", 1042808832);
truncate("b", 1042808832);
return 0;
}
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Edward Allcutt <[log in to unmask]>
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